Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus linguistics began fifty years ago, but the subject has seen explosive growth since the early 1990s. These days corpora are being used to advance virtually every aspect of language study, from computer processing techniques such as machine translation, to literary stylistics, social aspects of language use, and improved language-teaching methods. Because corpus linguistics has grown fast from small beginnings, newcomers to the field often find it hard to get their bearings. Important papers can be difficult to track down. This volume reprints forty-two articles on corpus linguistics by an international selection of authors, which comprehensively illustrate the directions in which the subject is developing. It includes articles that are already recognized as classics, and others which deserve to become so, supplemented with editorial introductions relating the individual contributions to the field as a whole. This collection of readings will be useful to students of corpus linguistics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as academics researching this fascinating area of linguistics.

About the Author
Geoffrey Sampson is a former Professor of Natural Language Computing at the School of Informatics, University of Sussex. He is now a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa. Diana McCarthy is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, in the Department of Informatics at Sussex University.

Reviews
"...the book has been compiled with a lot of thought, covering a large number of different topic area within corpus linguistics. The editors' introductions to each chapter are very useful as they do not only briefly summarize the chapter but also put it into context for the readers. All chapters are relatively short so that they are not overwhelming for a reader new to the area and all were selected for their importance to the field of corpus linguistics. '...the book is an extremely valuable resource to own, not only for corpus linguists as reference, but also for those newly interested in the area to understand the wider field of corpus linguistics as well as the historical development that it has undergone.' Ute Knoch, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Review on LinguistList."



Book Information
ISBN 9780826488039
Author Geoffrey Sampson
Format Paperback
Page Count 542
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 1010g